Hinge.



PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

H. H. PATTEE.

HINGE.

AIILIUATION FILED D110. 12, 1902.

110 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

MW, X

No. 629,204., dated PATENT Patented June 23, 1903.

OFFICE.

HERBERT H. PATTEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HINGE.

.SQPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,811, dated June23, 1903. Application filed December 12, 1902. Serial No. 134,907. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT H. PATTEE, a

citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hinges, of which the following isaspecification.

This invention relates to a new and improved hinge which is intendedprimarily for use with a combined couch and chair of the kind describedin my former Letters Patent, July 18, 1899, or of the kind described inmy copending application for Letters Patent on a combinedcouch andchair, filed August 7, 1902, Serial No. 118,763,

although it is susceptible of a wide variety of i the front part ofchair-section 1.

View of a chair uses. Its object is to enable the foldable parts of aframe to be so hinged together that the hinge may be concealed, thehinging may be more effectual, the seat of the chair may be lower thanotherwise with substantially the same construction of frame, and the in-.terhinged portions of the frame may be made much lighter than usual;and the invention thereforeconsists, essentially, in the construction,arrangement, and combination ofparts, substantially as will behereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is afront provided with my improvedform of hinge. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective View of the same. Fig.3 is a sectional plan view.

Like numerals of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

In order to show one application of my hinge, I will describe certainparts of a couchchair to which it is applied. 1 denotes the main portionof this chair, having supporting-legs 2. Hinged to section 1 is thesection 3, having arms 4. Section 3 is adapted to be reversed when thechair is made into a couch or to occupy the chair position, in which itappears in Fig. 1.

two leaves 60, connected together by a pivot 52. The lower leaf issecured by screws to Theupper leaf is provided at one end with anintegral right-angled plate 53, having screw-holes 54:, through whichpass screws 59 forthe purpose of securing the plate 53 firmly andrigidly to the front post of the arm-section 3,'and as an additionalmeans for fastening the plate 53 immovably said plate has formedintegrally therewith a vertical web 56, which is integral with anelongated round post 55, that fits into a socket in the arm-section postcontiguous to the plate, said post 55 having on its lower end a pin 57,adapted to enter a hole 58 in the top of the middle section 1, so thatwhen the arm-section is in chair position on top of the middle sectionthe engagement of pins 57 with holes 58 will keep the parts firmly inplace and prevent racking and strain. This .im proved hinge means foruniting the middle portion and the arm-section at the front enables saidarm-section to be of a lighter construction than usual, for in this casethe front connection between the front posts thereof may be dispensedwith, while at the same time the strength of the combination is notimpaired, and it enables the seat to be lower than otherwise, for thefront connection of the frame is dispensed with.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hinge for a foldable couch and chair, consisting of the pivotedleaves, one of which is constructed to be secured to one of thechair-sections and the other of which is pro vided with an integralangular plate constructed to be secured to another of the chairsections,said plate having a pin for engaging the first-mentioned section.

2. Ajhinge for a combined couch and chair, consisting of the pivotedleaves, one of which is constructed to be secured to one of thechair-sections and the other of which is provided with an integralangular. plate con structed to be secured to the adjoining chairsection,said plate having an integral post situated in a recess in the saidsection and provided with a pin adapted to engage the first-mentionedchair-section when the parts are in chair position.

Signed at New York this ber, 1902.

31st day of Octo- HERBERT H. PATTEE.

Witnesses:

FRED E. TASKER, GEO. M. ISRAEL.

